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Dark Side of Our Inner Space, The

“I want to get to know the dark sides in us humans, because these dark places are alive. They are life.”

Tanja, Jessie, Anna, Marcus and Kai hear about a game that is supposed to take place in an abandoned military base – a game without the limits society imposes on them. They apply. And the “Big Game” starts: “In the time outside you have been bended by social rules. Here, in the Barracks of Freedom, there are no rules.” They start to play and get slowly dragged into the insidious recesses of their “inner spaces”. What is game? What is reality? Where are the boundaries? Where does one end and where does the other begin? What starts as a harmless game, ends in tragedy. A metaphor of the Big Game we call “life”. A study of the dark side of our soul.

Roland Reber has been working as a director and actor in theaters around the world since the 1970s. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute where he worked from 1981-1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Lünen. In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence (1991 & 1993) as a director and writer. For his direction of the feature THE ROOM (2001) he received the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. His other films include: IHR HABT MEINE SEELE GEBOGEN WIE EINEN SCHÖNEN TÄNZER (1979), MANUEL (short, 1998), DER FERNSEHAUFTRITT (short, 1998), DER KOFFER (short, 1999), ZWANG (short, 2000), SIND MÄDCHEN WERWÖLFE? (short, 2002), PENTAMAGICA (2003), THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE (2003), 24/7 THE PASSION OF LIFE (2005), MY DREAM OR LONELINESS NEVER WALKS ALONE (2007), ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS (2009), THE TRUTH OF LIE (2011), and ILLUSION (2013).